The climate problem - PART I: THE DEVELOPMENT OF DISEASE: How climate works
How climate comes to fluctuate and change
How we can reconstruct the past record of climate
PART II: CLIMATE AND HISTORY: Climate at the dawn of history
In the times of the early civilizations
Times of disturbance and decline of the ancient world
Through Viking times to the high Middle Ages
Decline again in the late Middle Ages
Little Ice Age: background to the history of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries
The recovery, 1700 to around 1950
PART III: CLIMATE IN THE MODERN WORLD AND QUESTIONS OVER THE FUTURE: Climate since 1950
The impact of climatic developments on human affairs and human history
The causes of climate's fluctuations and changes
Recent developments and the outlook
